What A World We Live In

The world in which we live in is rapidly becoming a Godless mess. I must note that it is going to take Gods direct intervention in the affairs of men, not only in our country but in the world.

1st Remember Where We Were- Eph 2:12 that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

In the Book of Gensis the serpent told Eve that if she ate of the “tree of knowledge” Gen 2:17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat…”

Gen 3:5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." NKJV We would be like God! Because of Eve and Adam disobeying God and His Word has brought us “the World” to the edge of extinction. Never before in the history of mankind is the brink of total destruction. Only one other time in world history was the possibility of total destruction so great! Scriptures record that in the Gen 6:11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. NKJV

Paul writes in Eph 2:12 having no hope and without God in the world.” The world as a whole is standing in situation where there is only one hope and that hope is Jesus. And yet because of the lie propagated by satin the world has believe the lie that “we can save ourselves.” This is even more evident as we read of Russia and Ukraine, or Israel and its surrounding people bent on its total destruction, of the threat of North Korea and we must not forget the threat posed by China. Paul reminds is to remember where we were before we met Christ. In the world today there is a great gulf of separation between men and between men and God.

Steven Cole has a good discussion on salvation writing…

As I’ve often said, salvation is a radical word. You don’t need to save if you’re in pretty good shape. All you need then is a little help. You need saving when you’re perishing and are helpless to save yourself. The Bible uses a number of metaphors to show that we are desperately helpless and unable to save ourselves.

It says that we were dead in our sins (Eph. 2:1; John 11).

It pictures us as blind (John 9; 2 Cor. 4:4), lost (Luke 15), leprous (Luke 5:12-14), crippled (Luke 5:18-25), deaf (Mark 7:31-35), and hardened in our hearts (Eph. 4:18).

Salvation means that God came to us while we were His sinful enemies (Rom. 5:8, 10), rescued us from our helpless condition, and gave us new life as His free gift.

As William Hendriksen put it (New Testament Commentary, 1 & 2 Timothy, Titus [Baker], p. 232), “God has delivered us from the greatest of all evils and he has placed us in possession of the greatest of all blessings.” (Sermon Central)

2nd Remember Where We Are Going- Eph 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

No matter what is happing in the world as disciples of Jesus and recipients of eternal life through the sacrificial blood that paid for our sin there is hope for eternity. I don’t know when but I know how we will survive the mess the world is in and it is Jesus. We are reminded that there is a place prepared for us. Jesus said He was preparing a place for us in order that we could be with Him and God the Father.

1 Cor 6:11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. NKJV

Gal 4:8-10 But then, indeed, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods. 9 But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage? NKJV

Eph 5:8-14 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), 10 finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. 13 But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. 14 Therefore He says: